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03/15/11 Coulter Grant Recipients Announced
Today

Five research teams that will use bioengineering methods to tackle clinical problems have received a total of $432,000 in seed grant funds from the Wallace H. Coulter Translational Research Grant Program at Stanford.
Now in its sixth year, the Stanford-Coulter program bridges the gap between clinical needs and engineering solutions. To qualify for funding, teams must include a physician and an engineer. The five projects receiving the 2011 grants are:

02/14/11 CTSA Awards Biodesign Projects

Five medical technology teams from Stanford Biodesign have received a total of $125,000 through the Spectrum pilot grant program.
The biodesign program and Spectrum, the Stanford Center for Clinical and Translational Education and Research, are working together to improve and advance the training of young innovators, while at the same time accelerating the development of novel medical technologies and diagnostics. Biodesign projects are funded by a Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Institutes of Health, and Stanford institutional and philanthropic funds.
ÂThe biodesign approach to identifying and tackling clinical needs has been extremely effective,Â said Spectrum director, Harry Greenberg, MD. ÂAs of 2010, biodesign inventions have resulted in almost 200 patent applications, and over 35,000 patients have been treated by devices created through the program.Â
The five projects and investigator teams receiving funds include:

A novel approach to cardiac rhythm support that reduces complications associated with current technologies Â Aravind Swaminathan, MD, and Ellis Garai, both graduate students and former biodesign fellows.

A minimally invasive treatment for chronic venous insufficiency, in which damaged veins are not able to pump enough oxygen-poor blood back to the heart Â Fletcher Wilson, biodesign fellow and R. James Yu, MD, urology fellow

02/01/11 Fluidigm Issues IP

Fluidigm, a company founded on technology developed by Bioengineering
Professor Steven Quake and Gajus Worthington, has raised nearly
$75 million in a recent IPO. Fluidigm's products are used to
detect rare cancer stem cells that are hard to find, and which
are thought to enable cancer to rebound following chemotherapy.
Stem cell researchers use the Fluidigm machines to identify signatures
of induced pluripotent stem cells—ordinary adult cells
that scientists reprogram into a stem-cell like state.

Professor Paul Yock recently published Biodesign: The Process of Innovating Medical Technologies, a book for medical device entrepreneurs that teaches the skill of innovation. Biodesign is a “how-to” book for those interested in developing medical devices or starting a company in the medical device field.

Assistant Professor Jennifer Cochran published Protein Engineering
and Design, which aims to develop a synergistic approach to
protein science. The book is divided into two parts: Experimental
Protein Engineering, discussing experimental approaches to protein
engineering, and Computational Protein Design.

06/24/09 Graduate Students Richard Gaster and Drew Hall win IEEE Award
Bioengineering student Richard Gaster and Electrical Engineering student Drew Hall were awared the "Student Humanitarian Supreme" award by the IEEE in their Change the World Competition. The Change the World Competition is a world-wide contest designed to recognize students who identify a real-world problem, apply engineering, science, computing and leadership skills to solve it, thereby benefiting humanity or their community.

Richard and Drew were selected from over 200 students across the world. Their project used technology to help with the diagnosis of disease.

03/26/09 Deisseroth Win's HHMI Early Career Scientist Award
Dr. Karl Deisseroth is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering. He has been appointed to a six year term as an Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist. Deisseroth along with 50 other young investigators were chosen from among more than 200 institutions nationwide.

A total of three investigators were selected from Stanford University; Dr. Howard Chang and Dr. Tirin Moore were also selected from the University's School of Medicine. All three Early Career Scientist will receive 1.5 million over a 6 year period. As HHMI investigators, these Scientist will maintain their academic appointment at Stanford University, and will be employed directly by HHMI. HHMI will fund their full salary and benefits. HHMI's total investment in the Early Career Scientist program is estimated to be 200 million.Read more

02/04/09 BioE Chair Wins Science Blogging Challenge Prize
RUSS ALTMAN, chair of the Department of Bioengineering and director of the Program in Biomedical Informatics, has won the Nature Network Science Blogging Challenge 2008 prize, along with SHIRLEY WU, a graduate student in biomedical informatics in Altman's lab. Altman said Wu inspired him to begin his blog, Building Confidence (http://rbaltman.wordpress.com) in September 2008 and often suggests topics. Wu has a blog titled I Was Lost But Now I Live Here (http://shirleywho.wordpress.com). Nature Network is part of the Nature Publishing Group, publishers of Nature. The site is intended to help scientists communicate and collaborate with one another.

Altman and Wu have won an invitation to Science Foo Camp 2009 (SciFoo), the annual invitation-only scientific "unconference" organized by Nature Publishing Group and O'Reilly Media and hosted by Google at their headquarters in California.

10/14/08 Zev Bryant Wins NIH's New Innovator Award
Zev Bryant, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of bioengineering, has received NIH's New Innovator award. Dr. Bryant will study biological energy consumption and force generation by re-engineering the mechanical functions of molecular machines found in cells. While scientists at any career level can receive Pioneer Awards, only early career investigators who have not held an NIH regular research (R01) or similar NIH grant are eligible for New Innovator Awards. Dr. Bryant will receive $1.5 million in direct costs over five years. The Innovator Award is a focused effort by NIH to encourage and fund pioneering research.

10/01/08Cochran Receives Martin D. Abeloff Award from the V Foundation for Cancer Research
Jennifer Cochran, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, has won the 2008 Martin D. Abeloff Scholar Award. This award along with a $100,000 grant is given to the highest rated V Scholar applicant. The V Foundation is a charitable organization dedicated to finding a cure for cancer. The foundation is named for the late Jim Valvano, the passionate former NC State basketball coach and award-wining broadcaster. http://www.jimmyv.org/

08/01/08 Cochran receives Hellman Faculty Scholar Award
Professor Jennifer Cochran was named as a recipient of a Hellman Faculty Scholar Award. The Hellman fund was established in 2000 by Warren and Chris Hellman to support and encourage promising assistant professors in areas concerning the physical and life sciences, engineering, arts, humanities and social sciences.

04/30/08 Latest Edition of Bioengineeing Newsletter Now Available
The Department of Bioengineering publishes a semiannual newsletter in the Spring and Fall. This latest edition of our newsletter includes the announcement of three new junior faculty, highlights of the topics discussed at our annual retreat, describes our translational research partnership grant from the
Wallace H. Coulter Foundation and celebrates the accomplishments of our faculty. Click on PDF to read more.

04/11/08 The Department of Bioengineering is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Christina Smolke.
Dr. Smolke will join the Bioengineering Department in January of 2009.

Dr. Smolke is currently an assistant professor at Caltech. She is working in the fields of biomolecular design, RNA engineering, synthetic biology, and cellular engineering. Her research efforts have focused on the design of new molecular tools for precisely regulating gene expression and the application of these tools to both programming cellular systems and better understanding the behavior of naturally occurring systems.

02/20/08Yock Receives ACC Distinguished Scientist Award
Dr. Paul Yock, Professor of Bioengineering and Director of Biodesign at Stanford University, is the recipient of the American College of Cardiology Foundation's Distinguished Scientist Award "for his development of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) imaging and his other innovative contributions to vascular devices as well as cardiovascular education." "This award recognizes of a Fellow of the College who has made major scientific contributions to the advancement of scientific knowledge in the field of cardiovascular disease."

01/23/08Delp Receives the Van C Mow Medal
Dr. Scott Delp, Professor of Bioengineering, has been selected to receive the 2008 Van C. Mow Medal, awarded by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.This award is bestowed upon an individual who has made significant contributions to the field of bioengineering through research, education, professional development, leadership in the development of the profession, as a mentor to young bioengineers, and with service to the bioengineering community.

01/11/08Bioengineering Hires Two New Faculty

The Department of Bioengineering is pleased to announce the appointments of two new assistant professors; Drs. Drew Endy and KC Huang. Dr. Endy will be arriving in Bioengineering in the fall of this year. Dr. Huang will be appointed in Bioengineering this summer.

Dr. Endy, currently an Assistant Professor at MIT, has been working to develop foundational technologies that make biology easy to engineer, an area of research known as "synthetic biology." He is also working to understand how natural and engineered biological systems can implement reliable behavior, on both individual and evolutionary timescales.

Dr. Huang, an Associate Research Scholar at Princeton, is focusing on improving our understanding of the physical mechanisms underlying bacterial cell division, membrane organization, and the structure of the cell wall. Dr. Huang employs diverse interdisciplinary methods of inquiry to understand the relationships among cell-shape detection, determination, and maintenance. He is interested in studying cell-wall synthesis and maintenance in order to create a comprehensive and general model of the role of cell shape in bacterial physiology.

11/19/07Three Elected Fellows to AIMBE
The American Institute for Medical and Biological
Engineering elected three Bioengineering faculty as Fellows, including:

Russ Altman, Professor of Bioengineering and of Genetics

Steve
Quake, Professor of Bioengineering

Charles A. Taylor, Associate
Professor of Bioengineering and of Mechanical Engineering and
Radiology

11/19/07Cochran
receives McCormick Award
Jennifer Cochran, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering,
was awarded the 2007 McCormick Award by the School of Medicine and
the Office of Diversity and Leadership. These awards provide research/project
funding to junior faculty women pursuing advancement, or to junior
faculty men or women who support the advancement of women in medicine
and/or medical research. The awards are supported by the McCormick
Funds, which were established to support the advancement of women
in medicine and/or medical research directly, or by supporting the
mentoring, training and encouragement of women pursuing the study
of medicine, in teaching medicine, and engaging in medical research.

11/16-18/07Bioengineering
Retreat
Faculty, Staff and students of Bioengineering held a day-long retreat at Asilomar
in Monterey County. On the agenda were strategic
planning sessions regarding undergraduate education, Coulter Program
and moonshots. See photo
from retreat.

10/08/07Longaker,
Scott elected to National Academy of Science
On October 8th the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy
of Sciences announced its newly elected members for 2007. Of the
65 newly elected members, two are affiliated with Bioengineering.
The newly elected members bring the current number of IOM Members
at Stanford to 56. They are:

10/25/07Life
in Motion Symposium
Bio-X has teamed up with Stanford’s National NIH Center for Physics based
Simulation of Biological Structures to hold a symposium entitled, “Life
in Motion”. The symposium will be held October 25 in the Clark Center Auditorium
from 8am to 7 pm. The goal of this symposium is to educate students and scientists
from different disciplines about the exciting uses of simulations driven by the
laws of physics and mechanics across a range of scales, from molecules to organisms.
The talks will be presented by a series of experts and innovators from around
the world. Life in Motion will include a Poster session where Stanford graduate
students and postdoctoral fellows will present their research. Further info: http://simtk.org/home/lifeinmotion

10/1/07 Schnitzer selected for NIH Pioneer Award
Mark Schnitzer, Affiliated Faculty of Bioengineering, has been chosen
to receive the NIH Pioneer Award for his innovative work with imaging
fruit-fly brains. He was one of two faculty at Stanford to receive
the award this year.

9/1/07Biodesign
Program Launches new Website
Paul Yock, Professor of Bioengineering, directs the Biodesign Program, a multi-disciplinary
training program for students and fellows interested in medical device innovation.
The program launched a new website: http://biodesign.stanford.edu/

8/30/07Schedule
for BioE 393 Seminar Announced
Professor Altman has announced the upcoming seminar series schedule
(see column right) for the 2007-08 academic year. This year the
seminar will highlight research from faculty of the Bioengineering
Department. Two faculty members will speak for 25 minutes each
with time allotted for questions and answers.

8/20/07Stanford hosts American Society of Biomechanics
Profs Delp and Jacobs are hosting the American
Society of Biomechanics a Stanford Aug. 22-25, 2007. This conference
brings 600 engineers, physicists, biologists, and physicians together
to study the wonders of human movement. In conjunction with the meeting,
Simbios, a national center for biomedical computing lead by Profs
Delp and Altman will release OpenSim 1.0, an graphical software system
for simulating human movement dynamics. (https://simtk.org/home/opensim)

7/30/07AMIA announces 10x10 partnership
The American
Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) has announced the
formal partnership of Stanford University with the 10x10 program.
Russ Altman, MD, PhD, Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics, Medicine,
and Computer Science, Director of the Biomedical Informatics Training
Program and Chair of the Department of Bioengineering, will serve
as the director of the Stanford University 10x10 offering. Read
more at the AMIA 10x10 site.

7/21/07Faculty Participate in E-Day
Several faculty members from Bioengineering participated in "Camp
E-Day: Engineering from Head to Toe." Nearly 500 of the School
of Engineering's graduates and their children attended the event
held at the Arrillaga Alumni Center.

Charles Taylor, associate professor
of bioengineering, also talked about simulating surgery in his
lecture, "Vital
Veins." Taylor
and his research team have created a computer program called
ASPIRE (Advanced Surgical Planning Interactive Research Environment),
which doctors can use to perform certain operations in cyberspace
before doing so on an actual patient. This program allows doctors
to try different corrective surgeries before deciding which is
the best option. Also speaking was Jennifer Cochran, assistant
professor of bioengineering, who discussed how she and her team
are developing designer proteins that can heal wounds; and Karl
Deisseroth, assistant professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry
and behavioral sciences, who spoke about engineering and mental
health.

7/12/07Jennifer Cochran named 47th Mallinckrodt Scholar
The
Trustees of the Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation have named
Dr. Jennifer Cochran the 47th Mallinckrodt Scholar. The award provides
funding to support highly promising young investigators. The Foundation
is interested in "advancing knowledge in the various fields
of medical and health research," particularly in basic research
with upstream potential for impacting disease. The scholar award
comes with three years of support for research.

6/07BioE
student Lahti doubly awarded Jennifer Lahti,
student of Jennifer Cochran, was recently awarded a
Stanford Centennial Teaching Assistant Award. She was
one of six students in the school of Engineering (and
the only Bioengineering student) to receive this award.
She also recently received a competitive graduate Fellowship
from the California Breast Cancer Research Program.

5/07Yock awarded
Honorary Degree Dr. Paul Yock was awarded a Doctor of Science (Hon.) from Amherst
College where he graduated in the class of 1973. He was one of eight
individuals to receive such honors for the 2006-07 academic year. Further
information can be found at the Amherst college website.

4/07Cochran
receives Kimmel Scholar AwardProfessor Jennifer Cochran was one of 15 faculty researchers nationwide
to receive a prestigious Kimmel Scholar Award. The Sidney Kimmel Foundation
for Cancer Research funds the Kimmel Scholars Program, which each year
provides research grants to the nation's most promising young cancer
researchers. The goal of the grant program is to improve the basic
understanding of cancer biology and to develop new methods for the
prevention and treatment of cancer. The award will provide Professor
Cochran with $100,000 per year for two years to pursue innovative research
that will ultimately lead to the development of new protein-based agents
for cancer therapy and molecular imaging applications.

4/3/07Faculty
Position Closed
The two open faculty positions are now closed.

3/07Cochran receives Diversity Faculty Research
Fellowship Award
The Office of Diversity and Leadership has awarded one of five the
Diversity Faculty Research Fellowship Awards to Assistant Professor
Jennifer Cochran. This program, modeled after the Center of Excellence
Faculty Fellowship Program, is directed at enhancing the diversity
(broadly defined) of the faculty of the School of Medicine by supporting
the development of assistant professors who contribute to such diversity.
The recipient receives $20,000 for career development, travel and
mentoring.

3/07Longaker
Distinguished MSU Alum
Dr. Michael Longaker has been selected by Michigan State
University to receive the Distinguished Alumnus Award
from the Michigan State University Men's Basketball Program. Dr. Longaker
was a member of the Varsity Basketball Team from 1976 to 1980, and
a member of the 1979 NCAA Men's Championship Basketball Team. from
the Michigan State University Men's Basketball Program.

3/07Faculty
Position Closed
The joint faculty position (EE and BioE) opening is now closed.

3/07Altman,
Cochran to speak at Symposium
Profs. Altman and Cochran will be speaking at the National Academy of Engineering
Symposium: Translating Engineering Discoveries into Practical Medicine to be
held April 5 from 2:30 to 5:00 pm at the Clark Center. Other speakers
will include Dean of Engineering, James Plummer, President of the National Academy
of Engineering, Bill Wulf, and Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering Krishna Shenoy. Further information can be seen at http://soe.stanford.edu/NAE/.

2/07Longaker
elected President of Society
Dr. Michael T. Longaker, Deane P. and Louise Mitchell Professor,
Director of Children's Surgical Research, Deputy Director of Stanford's
Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine and Director,
Program in Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University, Department
of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, has just
been elected 69th President of the Society of University Surgeons.

1/07Altman, Quake named chair, co-chair
Bioengineering is pleased to announce the appointment of Russ Altman, Professor
of Bioengineering, Genetics, Medicine, and Computer Science, to chair of the
department. Altman's research involves applications of computational technologies
to problems in molecular biology of relevance to medicine. Stephen Quake, Professor
of Bioengineering, will serve as co-chair. Dr. Quake's research entails large
scale biological automation, microfluidics and systems biology.

1/07 Zev Bryant to
join faculty in March Bryant comes from a Postdoctoral position in Biochemistry
at Stanford and is interested in the mechanisms of
molecular motors.

1/07 Markus
Covert joins faculty Covert comes to Bioengineering from CalTech where he was a
postdoctoral scholar. Covert's research is in building computational
models of complex biological processes and using these models to guide
experimental programs that involve the dynamic behavior of NF-kappaB,
an important family of transcription factors whose aberrant activity
has been linked to oncogenesis, tumor progression, and resistance to
chemotherapy.

1/07 Norbert Pelc
Elected AIMBE Fellow Election to the College of Fellows in the American
Institute for Medical and Biomedical Engineering (AIMBE) is awarded
to "leaders in the field who have distinguished themselves
through their contributions in research, industrial practice and/or
education". Pelc will be formally inducted at a ceremony
held at the National Academies early in 2007.

12/06 Delp Awarded Charles Lee Powell ProfessorshipScott Delp has been appointed as the third
holder of the Charles Lee Powell Professorship in the School of Engineering.
This professorship was established in 1983 with a gift from the Charles
Lee Powell Foundation. It honors the foundation's founder, Charles
Lee Powell, builder, underground contractor, engineer, rancher, and
real estate operator. It is the Foundation's preference that the
chairholder be a member of the faculty whose teaching and research
are related to the fields of engineering, applied mathematics and/or
computer science.

10/06Paul
Yock named Career Achievement Award Winner at TCT
The Cardiovascular Research Foundation
(CRF) honored Paul G. Yock, MD, with this year’s TCT Career Achievement
Award. Yock is the Martha Meier Weiland Professor of Medicine and Professor
of Bioengineering.
The award honors Yock’s achievements not only as a world-renowned
inventor, but also as an outstanding educator and leader. Read more
at the TCT website.

10/25/06Bioengineering
to fill two Faculty Positions The Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University, which
is jointly supported by the Schools of Medicine and Engineering, seeks
applicants for two new tenure-line faculty positions. The search is
open at the level of Assistant Professor or untenured Associate Professor.
Applicants are expected to have a doctoral degree in bioengineering,
biomedical engineering, biophysics, or any related discipline. We encourage
applications from physician-engineers.

10/25/06Bioengineering
& Electrical Engineering Seek Faculty for Joint AppointmentThe Departments of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering at
Stanford University wish to expand their efforts to address opportunities
at the interfaces among electrical engineering, bioengineering,
biology and medicine. Hence, they are seeking candidates for a
tenure-track faculty appointment at the Assistant Professor level
in this general area.

9/20/06Bioengineering
Professor named to NIH Pioneer Award for Third Year in a Row Kwabena Boahen snagged
one of the National Institutes of Health’s top prizes: the
annual NIH Director’s Pioneer Award. The prize provides each
winner with $2.5 million over five years to pursue new research directions
that are not already funded.
This year's award marks the third year that Bioengineering professors
have won the award: Professors Quake and Deisseroth also won
the award in 2004 and 2005 respectively.

9/06 Linehan
Elected to IAMBE
John H Linehan, PhD, was elected to the International Academy of
Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE). He is one of eight
new members elected this year to IAMBE worldwide. Membership
of the Academy is made up of persons who have distinguished themselves
by making identifiable contributions to the theory or practice
of medical and biological engineering or by demonstrating unusual
accomplishment in promoting the field of medical and biological
engineering. The Academy, a part of International Federation
for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE), conducts programs
to encourage young people entering the field and their development
in the early stages of their career.

8/22/06 Deisseroth
wins award
Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences, has just won the Presidential Early Career Award for
Scientists and Engineers. Established in 1996, this major award represents the
highest honor that any young scientist or engineer can receive in the United
States.

7/05/06 Clark Center Featured
in Wisconsin Journal Sentinel
The Clark Center, home of the Bioengineering Department, is featured
in Wisconsin Journal Sentinel "Making
the Connections"

5/06Sanjiv
Gambhir receives prestigious Aebersold Award The Society for Nuclear Medicine
(SNM) has given their prestigious Aebersold Award to Sanjiv Gambhir,
Professor of Radiology and Bioengineering, for outstanding achievement
in basic nuclear medicine science during the society’s 53rd Annual
Meeting in San Diego. Read more about the award
at the SNM website.

4/11/06James
Swartz appointed to the Leland T. Edwards Professorship in the
School of Engineering
This professorship was established in 1986 by William Edwards in honor of his
father and is a tribute to Leland Edward's determination to foster an appreciation
of the importance of education. It is his preference that the professorship support
a faculty member whose activities are believed to show promise of leading to
significant advances in technology, at the discretion of the dean.

4/10/06Stem
Cell Training Grants Funded
The School of Medicine has received $1.2 million from the California
Institute for Regenerative Medicine to train the next generation
of stem cell researchers. This is the first of a
three-year, $3.7 million grant that was awarded in September. The
grant will support 16 scholars - six graduate students, five postdoctoral
fellows and five MD research fellows from departments across campus.
Michael Longaker is the Principal Investigator.

3/7/06Gambhir
receives Hounsfield Medal
Dr. Sanji "Sam" Gambhir,
Professor of Radiology and Bioengineering and Director of the Molecular
Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS), has received the prestigious
Hounsfield Medal for his work in Molecular Imaging. This medal is
named after Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, who received the Nobel Prize
for Medicine in 1979 for his work on developing computer-assisted
tomography (CAT scanning). Dr. Gambhir's research focuses on multimodality
molecular imaging with an emphasis on novel strategies for cancer
diagnostics and management.

3/7/06Longaker named President Elect, SUS
Dr.
Michael Longaker, the Deane P. and Louise Mitchell Professor has
been elected President Elect of the Society of University Surgeons.

3/6/06Nanotechnology Center Funded
The National Cancer Institute has awarded Stanford University a
$20,000,000 U54 grant to establish a Center of Cancer Nanotechnology
Excellence (CCNE).
This grant involves the Schools of Medicine, Engineering, and H&S
as well as investigators from UCLA, Cedars Sinai, Fred Hutchinson,
UT Austin, General Electric and Intel. Dr. Sam Gambhir, Director
of the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS)
and Professor of Radiology and Bioengineering, is the Principal Investigator.

2/10/06John
Linehan Elected to National Academy of Engineering
John Linehan, Consulting Professor of Bioengineering, was elected
to the National Academy of Engineering today with 75 other new
members bringing the total to 2216. Linehan was cited for research
on the pulmonary mechanics and metabolism of critical bioactive
agents and for innovations in bioengineering education and professional
development. See the complete
announcement at the NAE website

1/25/06Jacobs
Awarded Prize
At the 24th annual meeting of Society for Physical Regulation in Medicine and
Biology Dr. Christopher Jacobs was given the Iwao Yasuda award. This honor is
bestowed annually to "an individual who has made an excellent contribution
to the field of biomedical research, based upon current research achievements
in the area of physical regulation in biology and medicine." The award carries
a cash prize, but Dr. Jacobs returned the money with instructions that it be
used to enhance student travel fellowships to present their work at the annual
meeting.

1/25/06Student
Awarded Prize
At the 24th annual meeting of Society for Physical Regulation in
Medicine and Biology Stanford BioE PhD student Amanda
Malone was
awarded a "Best Student Presentation" award for her talk
on the potential role of primary cilia as molecular mechanotransducers
in bone cells.

1/23/2006Innovator's
Workbench Announced
The Program in Biodesign is pleased to announce this year's Innovator's
Workbench Series of speakers:

12/5/05Faculty
Appointment Announced
The Department of Bioengineering is pleased to announce the appointment of new
faculty member Kwabena Boahen. Previously at the University
of Pennsylvania, Boahen's research interests include mixed-mode multichip VLSI
models of biological sensory and perceptual systems, their epigenetic development,
and asynchronous digital communication for reconfigurable connectivity. As a
bioengineer who uses integrated circuits to understand the way neurons compute,
his work links the seemingly disparate fields of electronics and computer science
with neurobiology and development.

11/15/05 Quake
receives 2005 Beckman Grant
Stephen R. Quake, PhD, Professor of Bioengineering, received a grant for
"Development of a High Throughput Experimental System for the Mammalian Oocyte
and Embryo." Each recipient receives research funding in the amount
of $150,000 over a three-year period.

10/26/05 Protein
Folding Machinery Center
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded funding to Stanford University
and five other institutions to establish the Center
for Protein Folding Machinery.
Judith Frydman, associate professor of biological sciences at Stanford, will
serve as co-director of the center along with Wah Chiu, professor of biochemistry
and molecular biology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Scott Delp,
chair of the Bioengineering Department will be an active participant in the
Center's studies. Full story is available at Stanford
Report website.

10/26/05 Grant
awarded for genomic database
Russ Altman, MD, PhD, professor of genetics, medicine, bioengineering and computer
science, was awarded $13.7 million from the National Institutes of Health Pharmacogenetics
Research Network. Altman is the principal investigator of a project, PharmGKB,
which is an online database of genetic and phenotype information from people
who have participated in research studies at various medical centers participating
in the PGRN. Read the article
in the Stanford Report.

10/05 Linehan
joins department
John H. Linehan, formerly of the Whitaker Foundation, has joined
the Department of Bioengineering as a Consulting Professor working
in the Program in Biodesign. Linehan will also serve as Executive
Editor of bmesource.org,
a portal for Biomedical Engineering students being created by 30+
universities across the U.S. See the press
release (pdf).

10/18/05 Volume 1 Issue 2 Bioengineering
Newsletter
The second issue of the Bioengineering Newsletter is now available. Read
the newsletter.

10/05Coulter
Grant AwardedThe Bioengineering Department has been awarded a Coulter Translational
Research Partnership in Biomedical Engineering. The award is $500,000
each year for up to five years. An endowment is available at the end
of the five years to programs that have demonstrated outstanding performance
in meeting the program's goals.

9/30/05Deisseroth
receives NIH Pioneer's Award Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
received the NIH Director's Pioneer Award. Dr. Deisseroth has been
focusing on the electrical circuitry of the brain, on the theory that
some mental illness may be due to circuitry glitches rather than chemical
imbalances. “We're
trying to bring high-speed bioengineering tools to the study of psychiatry,” he
said.

9/25/05Department
announces Broad Search for two Faculty Positions.
The search is open at the level of Assistant Professor or untenured Associate
Professor.
Please see full announcement (pdf)
for further details.

9/05Mazenko
receives first Employee Award Carolyn Mazenko, Faculty Affairs Officer for Bioengineering,
is the recipient of the first-ever "Employee of the Month" Award for
Clark Center Employees.

8/05Department
Featured The Bioengineering Department is featured in the lead article
in Today in Engineering (pdf) , the
School of Engineering's Newsletter.

8/05Deisseroth
receives award Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
and Psychiatry, is one of four recipients who has been awarded a Technological
Innovations in Neuroscience Award for 2005-2007 by the McKnight Endowment
Fund for Neuroscience. The awards pay $200,000 over two years for research
projects that seek to advance the field of neuroscience by developing
new tools and techniques enabling deeper understanding of the brain.

Andrea Les received 2nd place in the
B.S. Student Poster Competition in the Biofluids, Heat and Mass
Transfer Category for her paper entitled "Comparison
of Hemodynamic Parameters across Species in Normal and Aneurysmal
Abdominal Aortas using Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Computational
Fluid Mechanics". Andrea is a co-term student in BioE.

6/12/05Bioengineering's
first graduating class receives diplomasCommencement begins in the Stanford Stadium at 9:30 am. Steve
Jobs will be the Commencement speaker followed by an awards presentation
by Provost John Etchemendy. President Hennessy will offer closing
remarks.

Bioengineering Graduates will be awarded diplomas during their
individual department ceremony at the Clark Center Courtyard at
4:00 pm.

4/1/05Bioengineering broad area search
is officially closed
Search closed as of April 1. We anticipate additional searches each
year for several years.

3/30/05 Volume 1 Issue 1 Bioengineering Newsletter
The first issue of the Bioengineering Newsletter is now available. Read the newsletter.

3/11/05Applicants for 05-06 Academic
Year WelcomedTwenty two students were invited to attend interview day for
entry into the graduate program for Bioengineering. This year's applicant
pool was over 300 students. Applicants spent time interviewing
with faculty as well as touring the Clark Center and labs.

12/8/04Department announces Broad Search
for two Faculty Positions. The search is open to all levels
from tenure-track Assistant Professor to tenured Full Professor.
Please see full announcement (pdf)
for further details. Search closed as of April 1.

11/11/04Deisseroth receives Culpeper Scholar Award
Dr. Karl Deisseroth, assistant professor of Bioengineering and Psychiatry, has
been named one of three academic physicians in the United States to receive a
prestigious Charles E. Culpeper Scholarship in Medical Science, a program designed
to support the career development of academic physicians. The Charles E. Culpeper
Medical Scholar award is given on behalf of carefully selected
physicians of high potential achievement who are committed to careers in academic
medicine.

6/30/2004Faculty Appointments Announced
The Department of Bioengineering is pleased to
announce the appointments of three new faculty members: Jennifer
Cochran, Karl
Deisseroth, and Steve
Quake. Jennifer Cochran comes
to Bioengineering from MIT with a strong track record in immunobiology
and state-of the-art training in protein engineering. Jennifer is
poised to build a research program in Biomolecular engineering of
new materials and therapeutics. Karl Deisseroth's work with controlled
neurogenesis and neuroengineering offers fantastic potential to treat
a wide variety of neurological disorders. Steve Quake's research
on single molecule biophysics, microfluidics, and DNA sequencing,
has made him one of the top Bioengineering scientists in the country.

6/15/2004Submission Deadline for
05-06 Academic Year
Deadline for submitting applications to the Bioengineering Department for 2004-06
MS and PhD programs has been set for 1/4/05.

1/15/2004Submission Deadline
Deadline for submitting applications to the Bioengineering Department for 2004-05
MS and PhD programs has now passed.

10/01/2003Faculty Search Closed
The Bioengineering Department was seeking applicants for two new tenure-line
faculty positions. The search is now closed.

01/30/2003Chair and Co-chair announced
Stanford Report announces the appointments
of Scott Delp and Paul Yock as chair and co-chair respectively... more
in Stanford
Report

02/04/09 BioE Chair Wins Science Blogging Challenge Prize
RUSS ALTMAN, chair of the Department of Bioengineering and director of the Program in Biomedical Informatics, has won the Nature Network Science Blogging Challenge 2008 prize, along with SHIRLEY WU, a graduate student in biomedical informatics in Altman's lab. Altman said Wu inspired him to begin his blog, Building Confidence (http://rbaltman.wordpress.com) in September 2008 and often suggests topics. Wu has a blog titled I Was Lost But Now I Live Here (http://shirleywho.wordpress.com). Nature Network is part of the Nature Publishing Group, publishers of Nature. The site is intended to help scientists communicate and collaborate with one another.

Altman and Wu have won an invitation to Science Foo Camp 2009 (SciFoo), the annual invitation-only scientific "unconference" organized by Nature Publishing Group and O'Reilly Media and hosted by Google at their headquarters in California.

10/14/08 Zev Bryant Wins NIH's New Innovator Award
Zev Bryant, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of bioengineering, has received NIH's New Innovator award. Dr. Bryant will study biological energy consumption and force generation by re-engineering the mechanical functions of molecular machines found in cells. While scientists at any career level can receive Pioneer Awards, only early career investigators who have not held an NIH regular research (R01) or similar NIH grant are eligible for New Innovator Awards. Dr. Bryant will receive $1.5 million in direct costs over five years. The Innovator Award is a focused effort by NIH to encourage and fund pioneering research.

10/01/08Cochran Receives Martin D. Abeloff Award from the V Foundation for Cancer Research
Jennifer Cochran, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, has won the 2008 Martin D. Abeloff Scholar Award. This award along with a $100,000 grant is given to the highest rated V Scholar applicant. The V Foundation is a charitable organization dedicated to finding a cure for cancer. The foundation is named for the late Jim Valvano, the passionate former NC State basketball coach and award-wining broadcaster. http://www.jimmyv.org/

08/01/08 Cochran receives Hellman Faculty Scholar Award
Professor Jennifer Cochran was named as a recipient of a Hellman Faculty Scholar Award. The Hellman fund was established in 2000 by Warren and Chris Hellman to support and encourage promising assistant professors in areas concerning the physical and life sciences, engineering, arts, humanities and social sciences.

04/30/08 Latest Edition of Bioengineeing Newsletter Now Available
The Department of Bioengineering publishes a semiannual newsletter in the Spring and Fall. This latest edition of our newsletter includes the announcement of three new junior faculty, highlights of the topics discussed at our annual retreat, describes our translational research partnership grant from the
Wallace H. Coulter Foundation and celebrates the accomplishments of our faculty. Click on PDF to read more.

04/11/08 The Department of Bioengineering is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Christina Smolke.
Dr. Smolke will join the Bioengineering Department in January of 2009.

Dr. Smolke is currently an assistant professor at Caltech. She is working in the fields of biomolecular design, RNA engineering, synthetic biology, and cellular engineering. Her research efforts have focused on the design of new molecular tools for precisely regulating gene expression and the application of these tools to both programming cellular systems and better understanding the behavior of naturally occurring systems.

02/20/08Yock Receives ACC Distinguished Scientist Award
Dr. Paul Yock, Professor of Bioengineering and Director of Biodesign at Stanford University, is the recipient of the American College of Cardiology Foundation's Distinguished Scientist Award "for his development of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) imaging and his other innovative contributions to vascular devices as well as cardiovascular education." "This award recognizes of a Fellow of the College who has made major scientific contributions to the advancement of scientific knowledge in the field of cardiovascular disease."

01/23/08Delp Receives the Van C Mow Medal
Dr. Scott Delp, Professor of Bioengineering, has been selected to receive the 2008 Van C. Mow Medal, awarded by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.This award is bestowed upon an individual who has made significant contributions to the field of bioengineering through research, education, professional development, leadership in the development of the profession, as a mentor to young bioengineers, and with service to the bioengineering community.

01/11/08Bioengineering Hires Two New Faculty

The Department of Bioengineering is pleased to announce the appointments of two new assistant professors; Drs. Drew Endy and KC Huang. Dr. Endy will be arriving in Bioengineering in the fall of this year. Dr. Huang will be appointed in Bioengineering this summer.

Dr. Endy, currently an Assistant Professor at MIT, has been working to develop foundational technologies that make biology easy to engineer, an area of research known as "synthetic biology." He is also working to understand how natural and engineered biological systems can implement reliable behavior, on both individual and evolutionary timescales.

Dr. Huang, an Associate Research Scholar at Princeton, is focusing on improving our understanding of the physical mechanisms underlying bacterial cell division, membrane organization, and the structure of the cell wall. Dr. Huang employs diverse interdisciplinary methods of inquiry to understand the relationships among cell-shape detection, determination, and maintenance. He is interested in studying cell-wall synthesis and maintenance in order to create a comprehensive and general model of the role of cell shape in bacterial physiology.

11/19/07Three Elected Fellows to AIMBE
The American Institute for Medical and Biological
Engineering elected three Bioengineering faculty as Fellows, including:

Russ Altman, Professor of Bioengineering and of Genetics

Steve
Quake, Professor of Bioengineering

Charles A. Taylor, Associate
Professor of Bioengineering and of Mechanical Engineering and
Radiology

11/19/07Cochran
receives McCormick Award
Jennifer Cochran, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering,
was awarded the 2007 McCormick Award by the School of Medicine and
the Office of Diversity and Leadership. These awards provide research/project
funding to junior faculty women pursuing advancement, or to junior
faculty men or women who support the advancement of women in medicine
and/or medical research. The awards are supported by the McCormick
Funds, which were established to support the advancement of women
in medicine and/or medical research directly, or by supporting the
mentoring, training and encouragement of women pursuing the study
of medicine, in teaching medicine, and engaging in medical research.

11/16-18/07Bioengineering
Retreat
Faculty, Staff and students of Bioengineering held a day-long retreat at Asilomar
in Monterey County. On the agenda were strategic
planning sessions regarding undergraduate education, Coulter Program
and moonshots. See photo
from retreat.

10/08/07Longaker,
Scott elected to National Academy of Science
On October 8th the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy
of Sciences announced its newly elected members for 2007. Of the
65 newly elected members, two are affiliated with Bioengineering.
The newly elected members bring the current number of IOM Members
at Stanford to 56. They are:

10/25/07Life
in Motion Symposium
Bio-X has teamed up with Stanford’s National NIH Center for Physics based
Simulation of Biological Structures to hold a symposium entitled, “Life
in Motion”. The symposium will be held October 25 in the Clark Center Auditorium
from 8am to 7 pm. The goal of this symposium is to educate students and scientists
from different disciplines about the exciting uses of simulations driven by the
laws of physics and mechanics across a range of scales, from molecules to organisms.
The talks will be presented by a series of experts and innovators from around
the world. Life in Motion will include a Poster session where Stanford graduate
students and postdoctoral fellows will present their research. Further info: http://simtk.org/home/lifeinmotion

10/1/07 Schnitzer selected for NIH Pioneer Award
Mark Schnitzer, Affiliated Faculty of Bioengineering, has been chosen
to receive the NIH Pioneer Award for his innovative work with imaging
fruit-fly brains. He was one of two faculty at Stanford to receive
the award this year.

9/1/07Biodesign
Program Launches new Website
Paul Yock, Professor of Bioengineering, directs the Biodesign Program, a multi-disciplinary
training program for students and fellows interested in medical device innovation.
The program launched a new website: http://biodesign.stanford.edu/

8/30/07Schedule
for BioE 393 Seminar Announced
Professor Altman has announced the upcoming seminar series schedule
(see column right) for the 2007-08 academic year. This year the
seminar will highlight research from faculty of the Bioengineering
Department. Two faculty members will speak for 25 minutes each
with time allotted for questions and answers.

8/20/07Stanford hosts American Society of Biomechanics
Profs Delp and Jacobs are hosting the American
Society of Biomechanics a Stanford Aug. 22-25, 2007. This conference
brings 600 engineers, physicists, biologists, and physicians together
to study the wonders of human movement. In conjunction with the meeting,
Simbios, a national center for biomedical computing lead by Profs
Delp and Altman will release OpenSim 1.0, an graphical software system
for simulating human movement dynamics. (https://simtk.org/home/opensim)

7/30/07AMIA announces 10x10 partnership
The American
Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) has announced the
formal partnership of Stanford University with the 10x10 program.
Russ Altman, MD, PhD, Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics, Medicine,
and Computer Science, Director of the Biomedical Informatics Training
Program and Chair of the Department of Bioengineering, will serve
as the director of the Stanford University 10x10 offering. Read
more at the AMIA 10x10 site.

7/21/07Faculty Participate in E-Day
Several faculty members from Bioengineering participated in "Camp
E-Day: Engineering from Head to Toe." Nearly 500 of the School
of Engineering's graduates and their children attended the event
held at the Arrillaga Alumni Center.

Charles Taylor, associate professor
of bioengineering, also talked about simulating surgery in his
lecture, "Vital
Veins." Taylor
and his research team have created a computer program called
ASPIRE (Advanced Surgical Planning Interactive Research Environment),
which doctors can use to perform certain operations in cyberspace
before doing so on an actual patient. This program allows doctors
to try different corrective surgeries before deciding which is
the best option. Also speaking was Jennifer Cochran, assistant
professor of bioengineering, who discussed how she and her team
are developing designer proteins that can heal wounds; and Karl
Deisseroth, assistant professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry
and behavioral sciences, who spoke about engineering and mental
health.

7/12/07Jennifer Cochran named 47th Mallinckrodt Scholar
The
Trustees of the Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation have named
Dr. Jennifer Cochran the 47th Mallinckrodt Scholar. The award provides
funding to support highly promising young investigators. The Foundation
is interested in "advancing knowledge in the various fields
of medical and health research," particularly in basic research
with upstream potential for impacting disease. The scholar award
comes with three years of support for research.

6/07BioE
student Lahti doubly awarded Jennifer Lahti,
student of Jennifer Cochran, was recently awarded a
Stanford Centennial Teaching Assistant Award. She was
one of six students in the school of Engineering (and
the only Bioengineering student) to receive this award.
She also recently received a competitive graduate Fellowship
from the California Breast Cancer Research Program.

5/07Yock awarded
Honorary Degree Dr. Paul Yock was awarded a Doctor of Science (Hon.) from Amherst
College where he graduated in the class of 1973. He was one of eight
individuals to receive such honors for the 2006-07 academic year. Further
information can be found at the Amherst college website.

4/07Cochran
receives Kimmel Scholar AwardProfessor Jennifer Cochran was one of 15 faculty researchers nationwide
to receive a prestigious Kimmel Scholar Award. The Sidney Kimmel Foundation
for Cancer Research funds the Kimmel Scholars Program, which each year
provides research grants to the nation's most promising young cancer
researchers. The goal of the grant program is to improve the basic
understanding of cancer biology and to develop new methods for the
prevention and treatment of cancer. The award will provide Professor
Cochran with $100,000 per year for two years to pursue innovative research
that will ultimately lead to the development of new protein-based agents
for cancer therapy and molecular imaging applications.

4/3/07Faculty
Position Closed
The two open faculty positions are now closed.

3/07Cochran receives Diversity Faculty Research
Fellowship Award
The Office of Diversity and Leadership has awarded one of five the
Diversity Faculty Research Fellowship Awards to Assistant Professor
Jennifer Cochran. This program, modeled after the Center of Excellence
Faculty Fellowship Program, is directed at enhancing the diversity
(broadly defined) of the faculty of the School of Medicine by supporting
the development of assistant professors who contribute to such diversity.
The recipient receives $20,000 for career development, travel and
mentoring.

3/07Longaker
Distinguished MSU Alum
Dr. Michael Longaker has been selected by Michigan State
University to receive the Distinguished Alumnus Award
from the Michigan State University Men's Basketball Program. Dr. Longaker
was a member of the Varsity Basketball Team from 1976 to 1980, and
a member of the 1979 NCAA Men's Championship Basketball Team. from
the Michigan State University Men's Basketball Program.

3/07Faculty
Position Closed
The joint faculty position (EE and BioE) opening is now closed.

3/07Altman,
Cochran to speak at Symposium
Profs. Altman and Cochran will be speaking at the National Academy of Engineering
Symposium: Translating Engineering Discoveries into Practical Medicine to be
held April 5 from 2:30 to 5:00 pm at the Clark Center. Other speakers
will include Dean of Engineering, James Plummer, President of the National Academy
of Engineering, Bill Wulf, and Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering Krishna Shenoy. Further information can be seen at http://soe.stanford.edu/NAE/.

2/07Longaker
elected President of Society
Dr. Michael T. Longaker, Deane P. and Louise Mitchell Professor,
Director of Children's Surgical Research, Deputy Director of Stanford's
Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine and Director,
Program in Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University, Department
of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, has just
been elected 69th President of the Society of University Surgeons.

1/07Altman, Quake named chair, co-chair
Bioengineering is pleased to announce the appointment of Russ Altman, Professor
of Bioengineering, Genetics, Medicine, and Computer Science, to chair of the
department. Altman's research involves applications of computational technologies
to problems in molecular biology of relevance to medicine. Stephen Quake, Professor
of Bioengineering, will serve as co-chair. Dr. Quake's research entails large
scale biological automation, microfluidics and systems biology.

1/07 Zev Bryant to
join faculty in March Bryant comes from a Postdoctoral position in Biochemistry
at Stanford and is interested in the mechanisms of
molecular motors.

1/07 Markus
Covert joins faculty Covert comes to Bioengineering from CalTech where he was a
postdoctoral scholar. Covert's research is in building computational
models of complex biological processes and using these models to guide
experimental programs that involve the dynamic behavior of NF-kappaB,
an important family of transcription factors whose aberrant activity
has been linked to oncogenesis, tumor progression, and resistance to
chemotherapy.

1/07 Norbert Pelc
Elected AIMBE Fellow Election to the College of Fellows in the American
Institute for Medical and Biomedical Engineering (AIMBE) is awarded
to "leaders in the field who have distinguished themselves
through their contributions in research, industrial practice and/or
education". Pelc will be formally inducted at a ceremony
held at the National Academies early in 2007.

12/06 Delp Awarded Charles Lee Powell ProfessorshipScott Delp has been appointed as the third
holder of the Charles Lee Powell Professorship in the School of Engineering.
This professorship was established in 1983 with a gift from the Charles
Lee Powell Foundation. It honors the foundation's founder, Charles
Lee Powell, builder, underground contractor, engineer, rancher, and
real estate operator. It is the Foundation's preference that the
chairholder be a member of the faculty whose teaching and research
are related to the fields of engineering, applied mathematics and/or
computer science.

10/06Paul
Yock named Career Achievement Award Winner at TCT
The Cardiovascular Research Foundation
(CRF) honored Paul G. Yock, MD, with this year’s TCT Career Achievement
Award. Yock is the Martha Meier Weiland Professor of Medicine and Professor
of Bioengineering.
The award honors Yock’s achievements not only as a world-renowned
inventor, but also as an outstanding educator and leader. Read more
at the TCT website.

10/25/06Bioengineering
to fill two Faculty Positions The Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University, which
is jointly supported by the Schools of Medicine and Engineering, seeks
applicants for two new tenure-line faculty positions. The search is
open at the level of Assistant Professor or untenured Associate Professor.
Applicants are expected to have a doctoral degree in bioengineering,
biomedical engineering, biophysics, or any related discipline. We encourage
applications from physician-engineers.

10/25/06Bioengineering
& Electrical Engineering Seek Faculty for Joint AppointmentThe Departments of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering at
Stanford University wish to expand their efforts to address opportunities
at the interfaces among electrical engineering, bioengineering,
biology and medicine. Hence, they are seeking candidates for a
tenure-track faculty appointment at the Assistant Professor level
in this general area.

9/20/06Bioengineering
Professor named to NIH Pioneer Award for Third Year in a Row Kwabena Boahen snagged
one of the National Institutes of Health’s top prizes: the
annual NIH Director’s Pioneer Award. The prize provides each
winner with $2.5 million over five years to pursue new research directions
that are not already funded.
This year's award marks the third year that Bioengineering professors
have won the award: Professors Quake and Deisseroth also won
the award in 2004 and 2005 respectively.

9/06 Linehan
Elected to IAMBE
John H Linehan, PhD, was elected to the International Academy of
Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE). He is one of eight
new members elected this year to IAMBE worldwide. Membership
of the Academy is made up of persons who have distinguished themselves
by making identifiable contributions to the theory or practice
of medical and biological engineering or by demonstrating unusual
accomplishment in promoting the field of medical and biological
engineering. The Academy, a part of International Federation
for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE), conducts programs
to encourage young people entering the field and their development
in the early stages of their career.

8/22/06 Deisseroth
wins award
Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences, has just won the Presidential Early Career Award for
Scientists and Engineers. Established in 1996, this major award represents the
highest honor that any young scientist or engineer can receive in the United
States.

7/05/06 Clark Center Featured
in Wisconsin Journal Sentinel
The Clark Center, home of the Bioengineering Department, is featured
in Wisconsin Journal Sentinel "Making
the Connections"

5/06Sanjiv
Gambhir receives prestigious Aebersold Award The Society for Nuclear Medicine
(SNM) has given their prestigious Aebersold Award to Sanjiv Gambhir,
Professor of Radiology and Bioengineering, for outstanding achievement
in basic nuclear medicine science during the society’s 53rd Annual
Meeting in San Diego. Read more about the award
at the SNM website.

4/11/06James
Swartz appointed to the Leland T. Edwards Professorship in the
School of Engineering
This professorship was established in 1986 by William Edwards in honor of his
father and is a tribute to Leland Edward's determination to foster an appreciation
of the importance of education. It is his preference that the professorship support
a faculty member whose activities are believed to show promise of leading to
significant advances in technology, at the discretion of the dean.

4/10/06Stem
Cell Training Grants Funded
The School of Medicine has received $1.2 million from the California
Institute for Regenerative Medicine to train the next generation
of stem cell researchers. This is the first of a
three-year, $3.7 million grant that was awarded in September. The
grant will support 16 scholars - six graduate students, five postdoctoral
fellows and five MD research fellows from departments across campus.
Michael Longaker is the Principal Investigator.

3/7/06Gambhir
receives Hounsfield Medal
Dr. Sanji "Sam" Gambhir,
Professor of Radiology and Bioengineering and Director of the Molecular
Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS), has received the prestigious
Hounsfield Medal for his work in Molecular Imaging. This medal is
named after Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, who received the Nobel Prize
for Medicine in 1979 for his work on developing computer-assisted
tomography (CAT scanning). Dr. Gambhir's research focuses on multimodality
molecular imaging with an emphasis on novel strategies for cancer
diagnostics and management.

3/7/06Longaker named President Elect, SUS
Dr.
Michael Longaker, the Deane P. and Louise Mitchell Professor has
been elected President Elect of the Society of University Surgeons.

3/6/06Nanotechnology Center Funded
The National Cancer Institute has awarded Stanford University a
$20,000,000 U54 grant to establish a Center of Cancer Nanotechnology
Excellence (CCNE).
This grant involves the Schools of Medicine, Engineering, and H&S
as well as investigators from UCLA, Cedars Sinai, Fred Hutchinson,
UT Austin, General Electric and Intel. Dr. Sam Gambhir, Director
of the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS)
and Professor of Radiology and Bioengineering, is the Principal Investigator.

2/10/06John
Linehan Elected to National Academy of Engineering
John Linehan, Consulting Professor of Bioengineering, was elected
to the National Academy of Engineering today with 75 other new
members bringing the total to 2216. Linehan was cited for research
on the pulmonary mechanics and metabolism of critical bioactive
agents and for innovations in bioengineering education and professional
development. See the complete
announcement at the NAE website

1/25/06Jacobs
Awarded Prize
At the 24th annual meeting of Society for Physical Regulation in Medicine and
Biology Dr. Christopher Jacobs was given the Iwao Yasuda award. This honor is
bestowed annually to "an individual who has made an excellent contribution
to the field of biomedical research, based upon current research achievements
in the area of physical regulation in biology and medicine." The award carries
a cash prize, but Dr. Jacobs returned the money with instructions that it be
used to enhance student travel fellowships to present their work at the annual
meeting.

1/25/06Student
Awarded Prize
At the 24th annual meeting of Society for Physical Regulation in
Medicine and Biology Stanford BioE PhD student Amanda
Malone was
awarded a "Best Student Presentation" award for her talk
on the potential role of primary cilia as molecular mechanotransducers
in bone cells.

1/23/2006Innovator's
Workbench Announced
The Program in Biodesign is pleased to announce this year's Innovator's
Workbench Series of speakers:

12/5/05Faculty
Appointment Announced
The Department of Bioengineering is pleased to announce the appointment of new
faculty member Kwabena Boahen. Previously at the University
of Pennsylvania, Boahen's research interests include mixed-mode multichip VLSI
models of biological sensory and perceptual systems, their epigenetic development,
and asynchronous digital communication for reconfigurable connectivity. As a
bioengineer who uses integrated circuits to understand the way neurons compute,
his work links the seemingly disparate fields of electronics and computer science
with neurobiology and development.

11/15/05 Quake
receives 2005 Beckman Grant
Stephen R. Quake, PhD, Professor of Bioengineering, received a grant for
"Development of a High Throughput Experimental System for the Mammalian Oocyte
and Embryo." Each recipient receives research funding in the amount
of $150,000 over a three-year period.

10/26/05 Protein
Folding Machinery Center
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded funding to Stanford University
and five other institutions to establish the Center
for Protein Folding Machinery.
Judith Frydman, associate professor of biological sciences at Stanford, will
serve as co-director of the center along with Wah Chiu, professor of biochemistry
and molecular biology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Scott Delp,
chair of the Bioengineering Department will be an active participant in the
Center's studies. Full story is available at Stanford
Report website.

10/26/05 Grant
awarded for genomic database
Russ Altman, MD, PhD, professor of genetics, medicine, bioengineering and computer
science, was awarded $13.7 million from the National Institutes of Health Pharmacogenetics
Research Network. Altman is the principal investigator of a project, PharmGKB,
which is an online database of genetic and phenotype information from people
who have participated in research studies at various medical centers participating
in the PGRN. Read the article
in the Stanford Report.

10/05 Linehan
joins department
John H. Linehan, formerly of the Whitaker Foundation, has joined
the Department of Bioengineering as a Consulting Professor working
in the Program in Biodesign. Linehan will also serve as Executive
Editor of bmesource.org,
a portal for Biomedical Engineering students being created by 30+
universities across the U.S. See the press
release (pdf).

10/18/05 Volume 1 Issue 2 Bioengineering
Newsletter
The second issue of the Bioengineering Newsletter is now available. Read
the newsletter.

10/05Coulter
Grant AwardedThe Bioengineering Department has been awarded a Coulter Translational
Research Partnership in Biomedical Engineering. The award is $500,000
each year for up to five years. An endowment is available at the end
of the five years to programs that have demonstrated outstanding performance
in meeting the program's goals.

9/30/05Deisseroth
receives NIH Pioneer's Award Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
received the NIH Director's Pioneer Award. Dr. Deisseroth has been
focusing on the electrical circuitry of the brain, on the theory that
some mental illness may be due to circuitry glitches rather than chemical
imbalances. “We're
trying to bring high-speed bioengineering tools to the study of psychiatry,” he
said.

9/25/05Department
announces Broad Search for two Faculty Positions.
The search is open at the level of Assistant Professor or untenured Associate
Professor.
Please see full announcement (pdf)
for further details.

9/05Mazenko
receives first Employee Award Carolyn Mazenko, Faculty Affairs Officer for Bioengineering,
is the recipient of the first-ever "Employee of the Month" Award for
Clark Center Employees.

8/05Department
Featured The Bioengineering Department is featured in the lead article
in Today in Engineering (pdf) , the
School of Engineering's Newsletter.

8/05Deisseroth
receives award Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
and Psychiatry, is one of four recipients who has been awarded a Technological
Innovations in Neuroscience Award for 2005-2007 by the McKnight Endowment
Fund for Neuroscience. The awards pay $200,000 over two years for research
projects that seek to advance the field of neuroscience by developing
new tools and techniques enabling deeper understanding of the brain.

Andrea Les received 2nd place in the
B.S. Student Poster Competition in the Biofluids, Heat and Mass
Transfer Category for her paper entitled "Comparison
of Hemodynamic Parameters across Species in Normal and Aneurysmal
Abdominal Aortas using Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Computational
Fluid Mechanics". Andrea is a co-term student in BioE.

6/12/05Bioengineering's
first graduating class receives diplomasCommencement begins in the Stanford Stadium at 9:30 am. Steve
Jobs will be the Commencement speaker followed by an awards presentation
by Provost John Etchemendy. President Hennessy will offer closing
remarks.

Bioengineering Graduates will be awarded diplomas during their
individual department ceremony at the Clark Center Courtyard at
4:00 pm.

4/1/05Bioengineering broad area search
is officially closed
Search closed as of April 1. We anticipate additional searches each
year for several years.

3/30/05 Volume 1 Issue 1 Bioengineering Newsletter
The first issue of the Bioengineering Newsletter is now available. Read the newsletter.

3/11/05Applicants for 05-06 Academic
Year WelcomedTwenty two students were invited to attend interview day for
entry into the graduate program for Bioengineering. This year's applicant
pool was over 300 students. Applicants spent time interviewing
with faculty as well as touring the Clark Center and labs.

12/8/04Department announces Broad Search
for two Faculty Positions. The search is open to all levels
from tenure-track Assistant Professor to tenured Full Professor.
Please see full announcement (pdf)
for further details. Search closed as of April 1.

11/11/04Deisseroth receives Culpeper Scholar Award
Dr. Karl Deisseroth, assistant professor of Bioengineering and Psychiatry, has
been named one of three academic physicians in the United States to receive a
prestigious Charles E. Culpeper Scholarship in Medical Science, a program designed
to support the career development of academic physicians. The Charles E. Culpeper
Medical Scholar award is given on behalf of carefully selected
physicians of high potential achievement who are committed to careers in academic
medicine.

6/30/2004Faculty Appointments Announced
The Department of Bioengineering is pleased to
announce the appointments of three new faculty members: Jennifer
Cochran, Karl
Deisseroth, and Steve
Quake. Jennifer Cochran comes
to Bioengineering from MIT with a strong track record in immunobiology
and state-of the-art training in protein engineering. Jennifer is
poised to build a research program in Biomolecular engineering of
new materials and therapeutics. Karl Deisseroth's work with controlled
neurogenesis and neuroengineering offers fantastic potential to treat
a wide variety of neurological disorders. Steve Quake's research
on single molecule biophysics, microfluidics, and DNA sequencing,
has made him one of the top Bioengineering scientists in the country.

6/15/2004Submission Deadline for
05-06 Academic Year
Deadline for submitting applications to the Bioengineering Department for 2004-06
MS and PhD programs has been set for 1/4/05.

1/15/2004Submission Deadline
Deadline for submitting applications to the Bioengineering Department for 2004-05
MS and PhD programs has now passed.

10/01/2003Faculty Search Closed
The Bioengineering Department was seeking applicants for two new tenure-line
faculty positions. The search is now closed.

01/30/2003Chair and Co-chair announced
Stanford Report announces the appointments
of Scott Delp and Paul Yock as chair and co-chair respectively... more
in Stanford
Report